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  • Bush Can’t Fake U.S. Policy Shifts
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Can’t Fake U.S. Policy Shifts By Fareed Zakaria 6/29/2006
    The Bush administration must wonder these days if it has a Rodney Dangerfield problem. No matter what it does, it can’t seem to get any respect. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has engineered a broad shift in American diplomacy over the last year, moving policy toward greater multilateralism, cooperation and common sense on Iran, North Korea and Iraq, and several other issues. And yet it hasn’t produced a change in (…)

  • Small Farms, Pet Owners Targeted
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Small Farms, Pet Owners Targeted By John Hanchette July 03, 2006 Olean - Fine. I admit it. I’m not as quick or as smart or as knowledgeable as I used to be.
    Until I wrote last week about the unconscionable and continuing slaughter of American horses for foreign food due to the United States Department of Agriculture’s stubborn flouting of congressional intent, this city slicker had never even heard of the latest boneheaded bureaucratic plan now brewing at USDA.
    In line with the (…)

  • What Happened To Accountability?
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    What Happened To Accountability? By Clarence Page 7/3/2006
    I think President Bush does protest a bit too much about the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal’s exposure of his administration’s secret money-tracking program. Bush called it "disgraceful" that the newspapers reported that Treasury Department officials acquired access to the world’s largest international financial database, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, commonly known (…)

  • Former Vets With GOP Ties Boost War Effort In Blogs
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former Vets With GOP Ties Boost War Effort In Blogs By Jerry Zremski, News National Correspondent 6/25/2006 WASHINGTON - A former spokesman for President Bush recently offered to several newspapers supposedly objective freelance stories from Iraq by two combat veterans who lead a pro-war group with deep Republican ties. Several months after revelations that a Pentagon contractor was paying Iraqi news outlets for favorable war coverage, former White House spokesman Taylor Gross approached (…)

  • Bush Busy Attacking Messengers As Terrorists Remain Unmolested
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Busy Attacking Messengers As Terrorists Remain Unmolested By Bill Gallagher July 3 2006
    Detroit - The attacks on the media, especially The New York Times, over revelations that the Bush administration has been secretly rummaging through international banking transactions, deflects attention from a far more serious issue. The real story is not that our government is looking at networks financing terrorist operations — a legitimate and necessary activity — but how poorly that job is (…)

  • Bush in perfect health: He makes me sick!
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last night on CBS news they did a bit about George W. Bush’s "superb" health at aged 60 (his birthday is today, July 3rd). His heartbeat is 57, his blood pressure 110 over 65,etc.etc. Big deal.
    But...
    It got me thinking? Why should Dubya be in such great shape when all of his forrunners aged significantly during their terms?
    Could it be that he has no conscience? Mmmm.
    I’ve got this theory: Bush TRANSFERS his various "ills" to segments of society including those overseas! To wit: (…)

  • The Bush War On Liberty Intensifies
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush War On Liberty Intensifies By Chris Floyd June 29, 2006
    Glenn Greenwald has the goods on the all-out war that the Bush Regime and its bootlicking sycophants throughout the right-wing media are waging against the free press. The recent "controversy" over the New York Times report on the Regime’s surveillance of bank records is, as Greenwald astutely notes, based entirely on outright falsehoods. It is also being deliberately stoked by the White House, whose lies about the (…)

  • The Neocon Battle For Media
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Neocon Battle For Media By Robert Parry June 30, 2006
    Since the 1980s, when the neoconservatives burst onto the Washington scene, they have always understood the power that comes from controlling the flow of information that passes from the U.S. government to the news media and then to the American people. This transmission of information through Washington was to these savvy neoconservatives what a key railroad junction was to Civil War generals, a strategic switching point to be (…)

  • Chavez Urges Africa To Unite Against US
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Urges Africa To Unite Against US By Daniel Flynn Sat Jul 1, 2006 3:40 PM ET BANJUL (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Africa on Saturday to forge closer ties with Latin America to combat what he called a threat of U.S. hegemony.
    Chavez, whose repeated criticism of America has raised hackles in Washington, called on an African Union summit to cooperate with Latin America in everything from oil production to university education to counter "colonial" meddling in (…)

  • STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election By Greg Palast Friday, June 30, 2006 GEORGE Bush’s operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I’m not talking about the November ’06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I’m talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency. It begins with an FBI document marked, "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign Intelligence Collection" and "Secret." Date: (…)